The American people clearly spoke, and the drubbing Democrats received requires looking beyond just issue polls, voting patterns, campaign strategy, or get-out-the-vote tactics.
Police State
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Material Responsibility: What the Banks Did To Baltimore
Bank of America, Barclays, Citibank and Deutsche Bank manipulated “interest rates on hundreds of trillions of dollars’ worth of loans and investments” purportedly used to fund Baltimore and other cities.
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French Lawmakers Pass Sweeping Surveillance Bill, Drawing Outcry
The new law would permit intelligence services to place cameras and recording devices in suspects' homes and beacons on their cars without prior authorization from a judge.
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Why Countries Across the World Are Revoking Freedom Of Assembly
Faced with mounting unrest and unwilling to offer reforms, democratic governments are rolling back traditional rights at an alarming rate. How many rights must be abrogated before a democracy becomes a police state?
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Stepping Out From Shadow of Patriot Act, It's Time To End NSA Data Collection
Maintaining a database of phone records upends a fundamental premise of the Constitution – the government should intrude on Americans’ private lives only if it has probable cause to suspect criminal activity.
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Just Last Month Maryland Cop Lobbyists Helped Block Reforms
A package of police reform bills was weakened under political pressure from Maryland police unions.
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Broke Cities and Broken Bodies – It’s Time to Make the Connections
The bankers get our money, charge us for taking it and leave cities’ budgets bare. Schools close, small businesses shut down, social programs fold and only the cops remain.
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Police and Protesters Clash In Baltimore After Freddie Gray's Funeral
“It’s from years and years of taking shit. Now we’re at a point where people just don’t give a fuck.”
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Land Ownership Lies At the Heart of Deadly Statistics About Environmentalist Killings
As people worldwide await the UN conference on climate change in Paris, lost in the larger narrative are the individual stories of people battling environmental injustice on the local level – and paying the biggest price for it.
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World's Youth See Snowden As a Hero – Making Surveillance Reform Inevitable
According to a worldwide poll, a large and important segment of global society sees Edward Snowden as hero and whistleblower — and its members are the future.
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Protests Mount in Baltimore Over Police Killing of Freddie Gray
Outrage over the police killing of 25-year-old Freddie Gray in Baltimore continued on Thursday after hundreds demonstrated in front of the Western District police station where Gray was taken following his arrest on April 12.
